Bear bows and dips
Pokes and delights
Ever fierce, passionate
Always loving, alive
Bear bless all
Carrys our prayers
Bear walks with wind
knows the medicine
keeps our secrets
tells our tales
Always dancing awake
Dreaming in the cave
In the S. Munro collection
Bear stood staunch and stoic
anchored like a boulder
midstream at the top of rushing minor waterfall
leaning into all the river pushing against her
massaging her backside
She waited
with absolute faith
knowingness
and joyous anticipation
until glittering salmon
jumped into her paws and mouth
(No mental gyrations about self-worth and deservedness here…)
